a British term that's becoming more widely used in American English to describe someone who is mild and pleasant. To say that someone is lovely might mean that he or she is nice or easy to be around, but isn't the most fuckable or fuckworthy person.

1. If someone says that you're lovely, you ain't getting laid.

2. Nate: What do you think of the new girl at the office?
Dave: She's lovely.
Nate: Would you bang her?
Dave: Hmmm...I wouldn't go that far.

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A word historically used to meanbeautiful and pleasant, however more recently frequently used to spruce up things which are terrible, tired, dirty, and/or just pants; which everybody knows is just pants however it's worth the shot, really, to make it seem not terrible.

Lovely people require lovely person for lovely 1400 pound p/w flat in trendy noisy shitty shoreditch! Our previous lovely flatmate left after a lovely three months of constant arguing and having an opinion. We're looking ideally for someone who is silent, complacent yet, of course, lovely.

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a new micronation, made by Danny Wallace(or King Danny I, as he likes to be called nowadays), as part of a BBC programme called How To Start Your Own Country.
Lovely has currently over 50,000 citizens,or Lovelians.

Isnt Lovelylovely?
I King Danny the First, am King of Lovely!
People in Lovely dont like French People
I am the Lovely rapist
Everyone in Lovely should listen to The Libertines 'Up The Bracket'